Colin Bazsali

Now

What I'm doing

Teaching

  • English 3 to juniors. Currently reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  • AP Language & Composition. Finishing up A Streetcar Named Desire and beginning a unit about what it means to live a Good Life.

Performing

  • Working on an upcoming gig with The New Original Vagabonds, the Bob Dylan tribute band I'm in.
  • Still trying to learn old-time fiddle.

Learning

  • Discovering the so-called "small web": Gopher, Gemini, BBSes, Usenet, RSS feeds.

What I'm reading

Short term

  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Second reading since high school.

What I have read.

Long term reading projects

  • Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust. Just finished Swann's Way and now reading Within A Budding Grove
  • Essays by Michel de Montaigne
  • Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline
  • The Iliad by Homer, in Greek